The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle (1982) User Reviews

Wall to wall sex

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 12 March 2016]

THE INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE sees notorious Spanish director Jess Franco attempt his one and only version of the story, although word has it that this was a film featuring a different character altogether and one merely renamed to cash in on the success of the long-running series. Certainly ORGIES has little to differentiate it from any other kind of softcore snoozer from the era.

There are a few attempts at characterisation here and there, and a look into the mindset of a snooty aristocrat, but basically this is wall to wall sex. There's a lesbian show at a private club that goes on for about twenty minutes and pushes the boundaries of explicitness and decency, and lots of disrobing and thrusting buttocks. No orgies, though; that particular bit of the title is a misnomer.

The cast are undistinguished but certainly enthusiastic in the bedroom stakes, and Franco regular Antonio Mayans makes an appearance. As ever, the director's style includes lots of zooms and the like, and your enjoyment of that will vary. Me, I found my mind wandering as I checked out the whitewashed architecture and the set design, waiting for the semblance of a plot to arrive that never did.

Looks like Jess Franco lost interest ...

[parry_na · 5/10 · 6 October 2023]

In a film with this kind of title, directed by Jess Franco, it's no surprise that not ten minutes have gone by before the two main characters are enjoying each other's company intimately. Emmanuelle and her husband Andreus have chosen a curiously unfrequented wax museum to indulge in some brief sex. Franco regular Antonio Mayans, billed here as Robert Foster plays hubby.

Of all the many females to have adorned Jess Franco's productions, Muriel Montossé is the one I find the most titillating. That's a purely personal view of course, but apart from her stunning looks and shape, she is also a very good actress, really capable of selling the allure of the two - surprisingly similar - main characters she has played for Franco. In fact, the similarities between this film (which contains no orgies, by the way - the title is typically provocative more than it is accurate) and the following year's 'Cecilia' are palpable. In both productions, the two actors play an equally fractious couple who find their rocky relationship fuelled by their peccadillos.

Here, we have rugged Tony Skios playing Marqués who the film is eager to show us from the opening voiceover onwards, is an absolute swine. His sharp-dressed swagger and smouldering looks paint him as a very laconic rotter, except other than proving to be less sexually impressive than he believes himself to be, he proves to be as much of a cypher as the other characters. The plot peters out into a flurry of thankfully non-invasive sex scenes, all accompanied by briskly plucked flamenco guitar music. No need to worry about missing any vital parts of the storyline because there aren't any - but then, any aficionado of Franco would be familiar with this approach. By the end, it is unclear whether the viewer has lost interest in the film, or Franco himself; it does seem very slapdash in its final act.

Muriel Montossé has escaped the fate of some of Jess's performers and enjoyed a prolific career, and she certainly gives Emmanuelle more overt sexuality and character than we might otherwise have got, but despite the lip-smacking locations, there's not a huge amount to get excited about here. My score is 5 out of 10.

Jess makes another Emmanuelle

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 16 February 2023]

Emmanuelle, reunited with her husband and making love in a wax museum surrounded by images of Hollywood like John Wayne and Superman and you might think, "Wow, Jess Franco making an Emmanuelle movie*, I wonder what that's like?" And then you realize that outside of this scene, the one that follows and the end didn't really have Jess caring all that much. There's no Lina, no jewel thieves, no mist that forces women to comply, not even good music to carry this through.

Muriel Montossé (who was also Cecilia) is Emanuelle, Antonio Mayans is her husband and Carmen Carrión from Night Has a Thousand Desires and Alone Against Terror is on hand. Our heroine finds herself trying to get back with her husband after he leaves her, yet again, when he sees her engaging in sapphic acts onstage. She floats through the world trying to win him over but only ends up assaulted along the way.

I would assume the name was just put on this by whoever chose to play this in their theaters. Even as much as Franco obsesses me, I can come clean and say he wasn't always making a great movie every time.

*I just realize that Franco also made Tender and Perverse Emanuelle which is less Emanuelle and more giallo.

Decent

[Michael_Elliott · 26 February 2008]

Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle, The (1982)

** (out of 4)

Jess Franco takes a stab at the Emmanuelle series, although this ends up having more in common with his de Sade/Eugenie films. There's not much plot but in the film Emmanuelle has just been married and prepares to settle down her sexual ways and stay with one man. However, she gets drunk and gets involved in a lesbian sex show, which freaks her husband out and soon she's back to her old ways. You could argue that outside the WIP genre, Franco has never really created anything of his own and he usually just takes something popular and puts his own spin on it. This originally wasn't suppose to be an Emmanuelle film and that name was just added in the post-dubbing but either way this film is a lot more successful than the recent, real Emmanuelle films I watched from Joe D'Amato. The big difference between Franco's film and those of D'Amato is the fact that Franco really knows how to photograph beautiful women and make them very erotic. There's a fifteen-minute lesbian show here, which certainly works overtime on the erotic nature and star Vicky Adams is a really beautiful woman and Franco captures this perfectly. There's also a very funny sequence at the start of the film when Emmanuelle and her husband walk through a wax museum and get sexually turned on by Humphrey Bogart!! However, the film runs out a steam fairly quickly as there's never any sort of plot going on but just various sex scenes throughout the 85+ minute running time. AKA Emmanuelle Exposed.

useful to have a woman so there is someone to jerk off the servants

[christopher-underwood · 6/10 · 13 July 2007]

This is not a great Franco film nor even a great sex film but it is still likable enough. Fantastic settings and enough 'action' to keep most happy. We don't really get an orgy, merely two couples in adjacent areas peeping at each other. In fact this final scene is probably the film's worst. For some reason both couples are placed in incredibly uncomfortable positions which they struggle to get out of and the desired 'peeping' looks more as if they are not approving of one another. There are some very good scenes, however, and the ironic and completely over the top narrative from the 'noble Spaniard' really is funny. He tells us it is useful to have a woman so there is someone to jerk off the servants and that he prefers his dog because at least he is a thoroughbred! The young female visitor is also raped by a couple of native Spaniards because 'that's what they come here for'. So not your everyday soft core but Franco fans will know what to expect

Yes, its Jess Franco.

[alexferdman-98602 · 7/10 · 6 February 2018]

You don't watch this movie expecting something, you watch Jess Franco. There are numerous variants of Spanish original--I prefer the one with English subs. The high point of this flick is not movie but some music and picture before anything start and when I see and listen I tell myself--this freaking guy is genius and I'm moron and its self-obvious. The flick itself is very simple and not much plot involved and it looks almost lousy if not for hot chicks and soft porn concentration.

Watchable and has some pretty women

[captgage-1 · 20 September 2011]

I once rented this movie years ago, and I thought it was not bad. The opening sex scene is fun. The lesbian 69 sequence is a definite highlight, featuring the two hottest women in the movie. It boasts some sexual tension among the men as well as the women. I don't know why the men were shy in that scene, but they missed out, except that they got to watch LOL.

The rest of the sex scenes aren't bad. What else can you say? Could've been a bit better, but pretty good as it is.

I'm not familiar with any other works by Jess Franco, so I'll have to research him.

This movie's downloadable.